Seagate vs Toshiba

[Quicks]

I would like to order a 3TB hard drive and these are the 2 options I have.

Seagate ST3000DM008 Barracuda 3TB
Toshiba 3TB 3.5" P300

I see that the Seagate ST3000DM001 have many bad reviews due to bad failure rate, and was wondering if the ST3000DM008 have sorted it out?

Anybody here with any experience with these drives if they are good or bad?

 

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My 5c worth.

Essentially Toshiba is the older Fujitsu under new management: https://www.pcworld.com/article/159631/article.html

Where I operate in the Enterprise space, Seagate tends to dominate the compatibility space, but not necessarily the quality space. It's for that reason we moved away from Seagate for spares, rather keeping Fujistsu and Hitachi disks a bit back. We could literally replace a Seagate disk today and get a call a month later for the same disk. Plus all the design and firmware issues. Since the switch, happiness.

So unless has changed the past year or two, I'll put my money and data on Toshiba.

Think of it this way: What would the impact be to you if it failed? Why try a dodgy horse when you have a good one in the stable?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I had a very bad experience with those notorious ST3000DM001 drives you mentioned, I just generally try to avoid Seagate drives now for anything remotely important.

 

[Venomous]

My 5c worth.

Essentially Toshiba is the older Fujitsu under new management: https://www.pcworld.com/article/159631/article.html

Where I operate in the Enterprise space, Seagate tends to dominate the compatibility space, but not necessarily the quality space. It's for that reason we moved away from Seagate for spares, rather keeping Fujistsu and Hitachi disks a bit back. We could literally replace a Seagate disk today and get a call a month later for the same disk. Plus all the design and firmware issues. Since the switch, happiness.

So unless has changed the past year or two, I'll put my money and data on Toshiba.

Think of it this way: What would the impact be to you if it failed? Why try a dodgy horse when you have a good one in the stable?

I've replaced more than a few Toshiba desktop and laptop drives in the past year. Most so damaged that data was not recoverable. Generally they die within a momth of the 12 month warranty finishing.

And in that same time I replaces 2 seagate drives that were older than 2 years. Probably 3-5years.

So my advice to the OP is to go for the seagate hybrid type (green) Seagate drives. They cost a little more than the std drive but generally have a 3yr+ warranty. Depending on the model the warranty is 3 or 5 years. I've also heard rumours of 10yr warranty.
I can contact a supplier later to confirm